| 687 regard by the membership of the church generally, and none, so far as we know have ever questioned the integrity or honesty of his convictions in this matter.
He still labors in the ministry to the extent of his physical ability; and his confidence in the truth as he received it so many years ago in his native land, has not in the least abated.
His wife who has been the faithful companion of his life, still lives; and together they are spending their old age in their home in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Six daughters have been born to them. Two they buried when babes in St. Louis, Missouri. The four remaining are: Mrs. George C. Milgate, of Folsom, California; Mrs. Thomas Daly, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, widow of the late Thomas Daly, of California, for many years a missionary on the Pacific Slope; Mrs. James D. Stuart, of Magnolia, Iowa; and Mrs. Arthur E. Dempsey, of Council Bluffs, Iowa.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN H. LAKE.
My father, Nicholas Lake, and mother, Oracy Lamb, were married October 9, 1809, in Yates County, New York. They had eleven children born to them, three daughters and eight sons. I was the seventh son, born December 4, 1829, in Yates County, New York. In 1832 my parents moved to Canada, and settled in the township of Mariposa, Victoria County; and in February 1854, I was married to Miss Mary Jane Low, by a Bible Christian minister. In about three months after we were married, my wife was smitten with abscess, or hip disease, and lost the use of her limb. We had commenced housekeeping, but her parents, Charles and Tamer Low, came to me and asked me to allow them to take their daughter and they would keep her while she should live. I consented and my home was broken up. I had free liberty to visit my wife whenever I wished to do so. But my future hopes were blighted. I did the best I could working at carpentering. When I was not at work I made my home with my parents.
In the winter of 1855 and 1856 my wife's father made a
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